Gotta Catch 'em All – Part Two

Well, I went over the stories of Tawyn’s pets, so let’s go over the pets of my first alt hunter… Lunapike:

alyoshasquareAlyosha has a bit of a story behind him: once upon a time Tawyn was Marksman-spec’d, because she was new to the game and that’s what everyone told her to do. Pike secretly really wanted to be Beast Mastery, but she was sort of afraid to completely respec and try, at first. So she went and rolled her second hunter, Lunapike, to be a Beast Master. And at level ten she ran Lunapike to the blood elf starting zone and tamed a Little Red Kitty. It was a symbolic choice.

I absolutely adore the red lynx skin and I’m quite attached to Alyosha, who is named after one of the three brothers in The Brothers Karamazov. From a roleplaying standpoint he also has strong ties to Lunapike through their respective backstories– I was actually writing a story about this but never finished. I’ll have to do that sometime >.>

Although Lunapike is not currently max-level anymore, Alyosha is sort of the de-facto instancing pet, although he now alternates with a certain bug who we shall touch on later…

ivansquareIvan is the second in my trio of Brothers Karamazov names. I tamed him in Thousand Needles, one of my favorite zones. Oh, and when I summon him, he bamfs in with a poof and a cloud of smoke. No, really. Once I found this out, I had to tame him, so I did. Oh, he’s actually a “she” according to lore, but meh. People turn their Loque’nahaks into girls all the time, so I turned my Arikara into a boy >.> I have this weird thing where all my pets are of the male persuasion for some reason. No idea why.

Now that he is a cunning pet more than a DPS pet, he spends a lot of time in the stable until I pull him out for PvP. Sad, but true.

dmitrisquareDmitri rounds out the Brothers Karamazov. Remember how I said I always wanted to make Tux a rainbow owl but could never bring myself to actually do it? Dmitri is the compromise. He’s not Tux, but he is the rainbow owl. Unfortunately I fear he will fall into the same quandary as Ivan, sitting around without a niche, but we’ll see. It is a PvP server, after all. And owls really are a very good choice for a battlegrounds pet I think– what with Snatch and having those big wings that get in peoples’ faces.

He is a beautiful pet and I bring him out to play during quests sometimes. Roar of Recovery is great for solo stuff.

serenitysquareI fell in love with Serenity almost immediately– this is probably another one of my overall favorite pet “looks” in the game. Now Rilgon likes to point out that everybody names their wasp Serenity, and that’s probably true, but ya know what, I don’t care. And I’ve actually yet to see another Serenity in-game myself, although I know most of the blog comments I get when I talk about him are “Great name, I’m gonna use it myself!” …not on my servers yet, it would appear!

Have I mentioned I love how this pet looks? I love how this pet looks. Lunapike gets all the awesome pets, it seems.

coultonsquareCoulton is the newest member of Lunapike’s pet family. Now originally, I didn’t want to get a gorilla. I was never really a gorilla fan, mostly because they are so large– and I prefer my pets small and unassuming. Able to rip your face off, yes, but also small and unassuming. Gorillas were big and they encouraged AoE spam which I in my stubbornness am not a big fan of. I like to shoot my targets one by one thank-ya-very-much.

But then when I was busy working on grinding Timbermaw rep for my Diplomat title I realized it might actually come in handy. So off I went to Feralas to tame myself a gorilla. I was right– it worked beautifully. And by the time I got my title and then after that when Thunderstomp became a family-wide ability, I was too attached to the big guy to swap him out. So, that’s the story on him: he’s the token tenacity pet and he’s probably here to stay.

The name? Take a guess

Alright. I have more, really, but I dunno, it would be crazy to keep going…

…right? /cough

11 thoughts on “Gotta Catch 'em All – Part Two”

  1. I love hearing these hunter-and-pet stories, and perhaps I’ll do a story or two about mine; I’ve been inspired!

  2. Heh. I thought about naming my belf’s gorilla Coulton, but Will threatened violence or at least incessant groaning. The monkey got named Ook instead. Ever so original, I know, but. Yay Discworld? :D?

  3. LOL, the minute I saw Coulton in bold right next to the picture of an ape, Code Monkey was the first thing that popped into my head. Then I really smiled when you linked to the video as it’s been several months since I last watched it.

    I dropped my Sporebat last night for a… you can probably guess… the latest MM hunter craze… A wolf. I’m too attached to my two cats (a ghost saber and Rakshiri), my Ashenvale bear that’s been with me since my mid 20s, and my gorilla (Uhkloc, not really attached, it’s just a spent 3 nights in that stinky, humid cave in Ungoro camping out for him). So my Sporebat took the fall. It was the hardest of my pets to keep alive in pet unfriendly fights anyway.

    I tamed one of those Cavedweller Worgs up in Storm Peaks, mostly because it comes in a level 80 version already. If it works out though, I want one of those armored wolves out of Hellfire Ramparts.

  4. RE: Coulton
    One of the guys in my guild has an alt hunter named Hatemonkey. One of my other guildies started writing into guild chat “Hatemonkey likes Fritos… Hatemonkey likes Tab and Mountain Dew…”

    I couldn’t get the gorram song out of my head. Now I’m off to a training session humming Code Monkey. My only hope is that I don’t break into song after lunch.

  5. I love hearing the stories behind your pets, makes me want to create a background for mine as well.

    Though I heard Arikawa doesn’t pop in with a poof of smoke anymore, I hope it isn’t true! :C

  6. I’m fairly certain Arikara lost her (or his) BAMF! appearance when called/summoned. A shame and if my wolf loses his bark, I’m not going to be a happy camper. I had to spend about 10 minutes running around Theramore to finally shake the stupid guards so I could tame him.

  7. Wow!!!

    I haven’t watched Code Monkey in ages! The first time I saw this I was having my very first amazingly cool guild experience.

    It was pre-BC and we were all mid 30’s tearing up Bloodsail Pirates in STV, and all really impressed by those lvl 60 running around in Molten Core.

    Thanks for the flash back.

    /woot!

  8. Code Monkey is good beats.
    Being a bit of a code monkey at work myself, I dig it.
    My gorilla is and always has been my favorite pet. I hated having to run MC/BWL/AQ with a cat back in the day because they actually had Claw AND Bite and thus put out more damage than other pets because I wanted to bring my ape.
    However, with the new streamlining of the families (5% all round) and the additional talents added to the last tier to up damage, I think Ookla will be seeing much more instance action.

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